After all the bullshit surrounding the Ballon d'or makes sense, I think that at this point, he can consider himself on the same level as messi, the debate of who is better can be left to the fans and their subjective points of view. However, these two will never be separated in terms of one always competing against the other.

well after he got blatantly cheated out of it this year it has become a joke of a trophy. ballon d'or for me now means nothing. all i know is that ronaldo and messi are both legends and its gonna take another 30+ years to see players of their quality if we lucky. all disagrees will be taken with a grain of salt.

UEFA is a joke, I understand Iniesta and Xavi are both great players, but still Ronaldo had an amazing year and since it would be bad to give it to messi after the year Ronaldo had they gave it to Iniesta. HA!